God's Looking Down on Us

Well so much has been going on once again. Matthew has been on swings this past week, and next week up until Thanksgiving he'll be on days. I guess they are going to flip him around from dasy to swings. I have to say I love swings! He can go places with me during the day, help me get appointments taken care of, help me out with Elijah, and housework.. Which we need to work on him helping me with housework, he doesn't quite understand that I don't need to ask him every time to help me out. He needs to see that things need to be done and help out, we are getting there though. :)
Well, right now Elijah is sleeping. Praise God! He's got bad gas, and its not that it stinks, but it's painful for him. :( Makes me a very sad mommy. I've looked at a list of food to not eat and then I questioned myself, well, what can I eat!? The list had a lot of good foods on it. But I'm going to try and get some gas drops for my little man. Hope that helps. Next week will be Elijah's first raod trip. 12 hours, nonstop, and of course we are going to have to stop to get gas, feed Elijah, change him, and to get out of the car and walk around. So, it will probably take closer to 15 hours... But, we are going to Virgina, to see Matthew's Nanny and Papa, and the rest of his family. His sisters will there, and so will his parents. Elijah will be a month old once Matthew's parents get to see him. He will be almost two months old when my paretns and family get to see him. Makes me sad that everyone can't see him at the same time, but I have to keep telling myself that Jeremiah, Matthew's brother, wont be able to see him til he's almost a year old. He's over in Afganastan. But, we don't have a travel swing and Elijah loves his swing, so I hope this trip goes ok. We were going to stay in a hotel while we were there in Virgiana, but Matthew's mom told me that her sister has a house that she isn't using and we could use it, so she called her and asked and it was a no brainer, we get to use the house. :) That way we can save some money. I forgot she wasn't using the house. This is just shows me that God is looking down on us and watching over us.
Matthew and I are doing pretty ok. We are ready for when Elijah starts laughing, and giggling. He's already smiling, and it's a great thing to see that when you look at your baby. Well this is enough for now. I can't wait to find out how much Elijah weighs... My little pumpkin. His legs are so chuncky, and his cheeks are so chubby. I just Love him!

Life... Up's, Down's, Twists' and Turns

So much has changed since my last post. I gave birth to my son, Elijah Micheal Flippen on October 23 at 12:42 pm. He has given me joy, happiness, and sleepless nights. He finally gained his birth weight back. He's now almost sitting at 9 pounds. He was born 8 pounds 9 ounces. He came home at 7 pounds 13 ounes. We are slowly getting him used to sleeping in his crib. We play our itunes for him to listen to. He seems to like that. I seem to be healing pretty ok. My hormones are still all over the place, which is normal for a breastfeeding mom I've been told. I'm ready to have a new normal. Since I know that we wont have what we used to have, now we have to plan around Elijah. If it's too cold for him outside, if the drive is to long, is our car good enough for a trip. When it was just Matthew and I we knew ok, well if the car breaks down thats ok, we can wait til someone gets here, but now we aren't just looking out for ourselves, we have a baby now that we have to take care of. I sometimes feel like I'm doing a good job with Elijah, and sometimes I feel like I do a horrible job. I sometimes ask God if I really am the right mom for him. I don't know what I'm doing is the right thing to do. I get so upset so fast sometimes. I just get frustarted sometimes, I'm sure it's normal, but sometimes I get mad at myself for being upset at my son.

On a differrent note... I keep thinking about Texas. I miss it so much. I miss living at Sheppard so much. I don't know why. I feel like if we could move back there I'd be so happy. Although in Matthew's Career we can't move there unkess he becomes a Tech School instructor. Which I wouldn't mind that. ;) Well I'm going to post a few pictures, and I'm done for the day. :)